March 31 2017
This battle report for Legends of Kalidasia is using the first beta of the upcoming competitive rules pack as well as the beta stat card for the Heragul Maned Wolf Missile Destroyer. The Orbital Contain objective divides the battlefield into two and sets the objective for the players to control their own half of the battlefield while contesting the opposing player’s half. For secondary objectives, the squadrons are trying to inflict warship kills while trying to keep as many of their own alive as possible.
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The Heragul and Surakari brought 75 point squadrons to the table. While the Heragul mostly deployed as a single group, with the exception of the Maned Wolf, the Surakari deployed in a scattered line. It was the plan of the Heragul to use the Maned Wolf destroyer to contest the Surakari side of the battlefield, but this ship was intercepted by the larger Hydrus Battle Cruiser and a Delphinus Frigate.
This tactic did allow for the remainder of the Heragul to focus on the Corona destroyer and other Delphinus, inflicting heavy damage on the frigate. By the end of turn 1, neither side had gained orbital domination.
With Turn 2, the Heragul won the initiative, selecting their Pale Fox to make the first action. The destroyer inflicted more damage on the isolated Surakari ships, mission killing the Delphinus and inflicting damage on the Corona.
In Response, the Hydrus continued to pound the Maned Wolf, inflicting a mission kill on the Maned Wolf and jeopardizing the Heragul plan to break an Orbital Contain. Heragul frigates make a pass against the Surakari, destroying the Delphinus and bringing the Corona very close to mission kill status.
At the end of the second turn, the Heragul make an aggressive push into Surakari territory, but with the massive Hydrus in the Heragul side of the board, neither squadron has completed the primary objective.
The Surakari capture the initiative for the Turn 3 and the Hydrus launches a devastating strike against the Mackerel Frigate, vaporizing the already damaged frigate.
With remainder of the ships on the edge of weapons range, little other damage is inflicted as the squadrons make sweeping turns. A squadron of Heragul Hunters break through the defenses of the Corona, putting the warship at the brink of mission kill status. Though neither side captured an orbital contain, the Surakari stand ready to score the first primary objective points if the Corona is not eliminated.
Turn 4 delivers the initiative into the hands of the Surakari once again and the Hydrus carefully positions itself to control the Surakari home zone while supporting the crippled Corona. Between the escorting Interceptors and the Hydrus’s rapid pulse cannons, all threats to the destroyer are eliminated, ensuring that it will score for this turn.
Across the battlefield, a gun fight between the Delphinus and a Hammerhead leaves the Surakari Frigate no longer as a scoring unit, but not mission killed. As the turn ends, the Hydrus controls the Surakari home territory, while the Corona contests the one Heragul frigate in their territory. The first orbital contain goes to the Invading Surakari.
A number of key engagements occur in turn 5. The Delphinus manages to survive a swarm of missiles and hunts down the crippled Maned Wolf Missile Destroyer.
However, the Hammerhead continues its pursuit and eliminates the Delphinus. The escorts of the Hyrdus break off and continue their support of the Corona, helping to keep it a scoring unit for one more turn.
In the twilight of the turn, the Pale Fox Destroyer engages the Hydrus in a circle strafe maneuver, inflicting little damage, while suffering heavy damage. The Surakari once again have the Orbital Contain.
During the final turn, the Surakari take the initiative and the Hydrus unleashes one more punishing barrage against the Pale Fox. It failed to inflict a mission kill, which will come to haunt the Surakari. Finally, without much of a fighter escort, the Corona falls to a hail of a Javelin Missiles.
Scoring for this scenario is spread across the three objectives. Each objective has five points to split between the two squadrons.
The Surakari obtained two orbital contains to zero for the Heragul, scoring them all five points.
Three Heragul Warships remained alive to the one for the Surakari, scoring the Heragul all five points.
Two Heragul warships were mission killed by the Surakari compared with three kills for the Heragul, giving the Heragul a lead of three to two.
Overall, the Heragul won the scenario, 8 to 7. Had the Hydrus mission killed the Pale Fox, the Surakari would have won the kill total objective and won the scenario.
